Stanton : Lincoln's war secretary

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Label

Stanton : Lincoln's war secretary

Title remainder

Lincoln's war secretary

Statement of responsibility

Walter Stahr

Creator

• Stahr, Walter

Author

• Stahr, Walter

Subject

• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Biography
• Stanton, Edwin M., (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
• Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography
• Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1869
• United States, War Department -- Biography
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union. Of the crucial men close to President Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (1814-1869) was the most powerful and controversial. Stanton raised, armed, and supervised the army of a million men who won the Civil War. He organized the war effort. He directed military movements from his telegraph office, where Lincoln literally hung out with him. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes, " such as resisting the draft or calling for an armistice. Stanton was so controversial that some accused him at that time of complicity in Lincoln's assassination. He was a stubborn genius who was both reviled and revered in his time. Now with this worthy complement to the enduring library of biographical accounts of those who helped Lincoln preserve the Union, Stanton honors the indispensable partner of the sixteenth president. Walter Stahr's essential book is the first major biography of Stanton in fifty years, restoring this underexplored figure to his proper place in American history"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Citation location within source

• July 01, 2017
• June 15, 2017

Citation source

• Library Journal
• Kirkus Reviews
• Library Journal Starred Reviews
• Kirkus Books of Special Note

Dewey number

• 973.7092
• B
• 923/.273

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E467.1.S8

LC item number

S73 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography